“I don’t need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11.”

—  Rudy Giuliani

Press conference (29 July 2004), as quoted in "Searching for Spin" in The Nation" (29 July 2004) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040816/berman
Variant : You know I can’t tell you — I haven’t seen it. I don’t really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

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